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LocaL HEMLOCK

Erik Danielsen wrote:I'd love to see more pictures; looks like a forest with a lot of that character of antiquity that really old hemlocks provide. Do you know if hemlocks in the stand are pre-settlement? Obviously the Norways are not; are they mixed in with the other conifers or distributed in a way that suggests they originate from more recent plantings separate from the native conifers?

I did a little checking on the web and they keep referring to it as old growth. Whether that means never cut is the question. Someone will know if I can find the right source. Some trees took a hurricane hit in 2003 but the gorge helped protect many.

One piece of promotion by the town references "a stately old-growth forest containing 250-year old Eastern Hemlocks."